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Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Model

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This very effectively illustrates the virtuous circle of the formula and the reinforcing aspect of its independent and inter-dependent elements. As people develop themselves they will increase their asset value, inevitably enabling them to make a greater contribution to the organisation and help execute strategy effectively. Note that, per the formula, disciplined execution is the multiplier and this will be boosted by their ownership stake which will make them more naturally inclined to do so.

Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Formula

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It is not about relativity; it’s about relationships. When you recognise this more people-centric approach and build your business model around it, you will witness the transformation it creates and bask in the success it brings – success that is sustainable.

How to Inspire the Right Attitude

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Employee engagement is, essentially, a matter of attitude. Think about it for a moment. What you are looking for in employee engagement, is employees who … Read more

How to Embed Powerful Employee Engagement

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The new Zealise “Triple A Employee ® Model”: a system to help you assess performance on an ongoing basis whilst simultaneously reinforcing the key elements of all your endeavours to engender and sustain employee engagement.

Do You Really Want Contract Workers?

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It started before the “Great Recession” but that period of economic history has seen it proliferate even more. Certainly reports suggest the trend of hiring … Read more

People as Assets – Fact or Fiction?

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“People are our greatest/most important assets!” How often have you heard that? It has become rather a cliché. But how much validity does the statement … Read more

Leadership made easy

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The leader leads and the boss drives. Employee ownership links the life-investment your people are making in your organisation with a sense of shared purpose. It serves as a catalyst to create the autonomy, mastery and purpose that will deliver the well-being and emotional equity to secure employee engagement and sustain better performance and better results. It will thus enable you to stop driving and lead more effectively.

How Management is Lobotomising Leadership

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The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.

Business Balance and Life’s Teeter-totter

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As human beings one of the biggest ongoing battles we face is the balancing act between self and society. The struggle between selfishness and selflessness … Read more

Looking for leadership

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How’s your organisation’s leadership?   That is likely to be anything but an easy question. Especially if you are the organisation’s leader! And it is … Read more

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